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22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for them to act in a responsible... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Jun 2015
News

Pointing the Way to a Better World

problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on China’s... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details

04 May 2020
Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every decision up the chain... View Details

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Caitlin Reimers

to learn how to lead. The case method helps you define your own values within a universe of ideas." "I'm continually surprised by how thoughtful, caring, and family-like my section is," says Cait. "Here, people take View Details

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

the biggest challenges for organizations are to have the necessary competencies and resources to act upon inputs." Sowmia Gopinathan echoed this comment: " (the) downside is only where expectations of the customers are made high... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

charity care to uninsured patients. "It's a Robin Hood story," Heese says. "These hospitals overbill the insured patients to generate money to pay for the uninsured." (Heese's research was done before the enactment of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

undermine U.S. international competitiveness. This background note digs deeper into these trends and their origins, the barriers hindering change, and past and current reforms, including the 2010 Affordable Care Act. If fully implemented,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2019
Blog Post

New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019

search. Finally, you may continue to build your own network in ways you hadn't anticipated, perhaps meeting people outside of your own circle. This simple act of kindness can help set you up for success when you begin your outbound... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

take care of things while the folks in the Pentagon figured out what to do next. In the days and weeks to come, Americans will undoubtedly welcome government back into many aspects of market life: into airports and buildings, rental cars,... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Feb 2001
News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

behavior? Can we imagine firms mutually agreeing not to try and capture their regulators? To support appropriate environmental or social legislation? If a significant faction of the private sector started to act in this way consistently,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health care organizations act this way, they begin to thrive in unprecedented ways. A:... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a... View Details

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

REALLY MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE IS HELPING EMPLOYEES FEEL APPRECIATED.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to work even harder, the research... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

intertwined with expert analysis, Gordon illustrates why it is so difficult to act as an engaged health care consumer in the United States, and pulls back the curtain to expose the forces that hold the... View Details

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

concentration and are correlated with differences in firm performance. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 By: Chen, Hui, Katherine Gunny, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,... View Details